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V. Finally, Apod, gemmatus and fallax , united to Schonherr’s 
Manipulus II., form a last and natural group, in which the 
head is still shorter, thicker and more convex than in the pre¬ 
ceding, very often thicker than long, much elevated poste¬ 
riorly, abruptly and subperpendicularly attenuate behind. 
The thorax is short in both sexes, evidently transverse, abruptly 
and widely rounded at the sides behind the apex, then straight 
to the base, even straightened towards the posterior striga, 
never being larger at that constriction than at the anterior 
ampliation. This organ and ground colour of the elytra ful¬ 
vous, rufous or brunneous; in some more or less infus- 
cate, and adorned with tubercles or spines darker than the 
ground colour, and generally black. The shoulders are in 
the majority acutely extended outwards or spinose. The 
posterior femora are hardly or not at all extended behind the 
apex of the body. ( Hoplapoderus , Jekel). 
These five groups, comprising, with the two preceding subgenera, the 
whole of the old Olivierian genus, might become the basis for the 
raising of a tribe, Apoderince , which, from the anomalous construction 
of the head, should certainly have an equal value in classification with 
the various small Schonherrian divisions which I have proposed to unite 
with the Attelabidce. 
Apoderus tranquebaricus, Fabr. 
Apoderus tranquebaricus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 162, 6-7; Syst. EL 
ii. 418, 10. 01. Ent. v. 81, 15, 18. Attelabus, t. 1, f. 18. Sch. 
Gen.et Sp. Curcul. i. 194, 14. Gyll. in Sch. loc. cit, v. 281, 10. 
$ Capite elongato-subconico , obsolete transversim striguloso. Long, 
tota 10-^; cap. cum rostr. (^) 4; thor. 2; elytr. 4^ mill. 
Lat. elytr. mill. Long, antenn 2 T 8 g mill. 
^ Brevior , capite oblongo-subconico, evidentius transversim striguloso. 
Long tota 9^; cap. cum rostr. (^) 3 T 6 5 . Mens, reliq. part, ut 
in S • Long. ant. 2^ mill. 
Patria : Tranquebaria et locis plurimis India Orient. 
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